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Are you struggling with early wakes up? If you’ve decided to use a sleep training clock please follow these tips first. Remember, this isn’t a quick fix but a gradual one, so be patient. If you need more support with early wake ups, please be in touch.

Yep. You heard it here first. Now trained in helping sleep concerns for children and teens. So whether it’s your baby waking up several times a night or your teenager not falling asleep until 2am, I’m here to support all your sleep needs.

Go ahead. Post your questions and I will try my best to answer you on Wednesday 25th October

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After my short break, I'm back in action and looking forward to helping you get a better night’s sleep.

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Tali xx

What are they and why are they so important when addressing sleep challenges?
Sleep associations are “things” that your baby associates with falling asleep. It is an element that your baby NEEDS to go to sleep and stay asleep. 🍼 🌛🌟

These take two forms.
👉 positive sleep associations
👉 negative sleep associations

Positive associations are those that have a positive influence on settling to sleep and maintaining sleep, however, negative sleep can become a hindrance over time due to their very nature and often requires the assistance of mum/dad to help get your baby back to sleep.
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Rule of thumb: if you have a sleep association and it's working for you. Awesome… Keep going! However, if not, then it may be time to reassess and start making some changes

If you don’t think you can do this alone, I’m here to help and offer to hold your hand (not literally) through the process. Send me a message today! 💪 💕 🧸

Not every wake before 6am can be put down to early rising- sometimes it really can be as simple as your baby has already had enough rest.😞 If your little one is going to bed at 7.30 & waking at 5.30am, they have had 10 hours of sleep- which for a small percentage of babies can simply be enough. I’m not suggesting putting them to bed at 9 o’clock in the hope that they wake at 7. We all know that doesn’t work. Keeping a consistent bedtime during the optimal sleep windows is best. If your little one is waking early & showing the signs that they are still tired it could be due to one of the following factors: 👉 wet nappy 👉 loud external noise 👉 bedtime too late (again, why we wouldn’t encourage a later bedtime in the hope for a later wake) 👉 scheduling issue 👉 behavioural 👉 too cold See my post on "why is my little one waking up at 5am every morning? for more details. Addressing the above issues is important to determine whether there is a factor that is causing your little one to wake. If all boxes are checked, have a look at how much sleep they are getting & whether they are waking happy.Your little one could be one of the small percentage of babies that have simply had enough sleep

It been fun but the summer time is soon officially over when the clocks change on 30st October. But as the clocks change, what will happen to your LO’s sleep. It's a time that every parent, even the ones with the best sleepers, dread! The time will be moving backwards by an hour so you are officially gaining an hour (but not exactly true if you have children) e.g 7am bedtime becomes 6am wakeup 🤯

Babies’ biological clock (or to use the official word, the circadian rhythms) are set by three things a) Food 🍼, b) light 🌞 and c) social interaction 🎉, so by using these three elements, you have help solve the problem.

Here’s what you can do: The aim is to move your child’s sleep, food and social interactions forward in small increments of time over the period of a week. This can either be done the week before the clock change, or you may fancy waiting, and decide to work on it the week after the clock change. The choice is yours and neither better than the other. 💪

To help your child cope with the change, distract them with quiet cuddles or fun games. It also helps to be in the sunlight first thing in the morning and late in the afternoon.
You will need to work on re-settling to encourage these adjustments, they are unlikely to happen automatically. However, if your child was previously a much too early riser, the time change can be a blessing in disguise. Because there is now an extra hour to re-settle your child from 5-7am, you will be far more likely to be able to move the wake up time to 7am than you would have been with the previous 1-hour window.


These tables assume that your child is on a 7am-7pm schedule. If that’s not the case, adjust it to suit. 😴

Save this post for future reference. Let me know how you get on and if you have any good ideas for helping with the clock change💜 💜💜

Tali Korman on Instagram: "So I wanted to make a reel but I’ve got a stinky cold so I thought I’d put my kids in the limelight instead… I think they did a pretty good job🤪! ABC of safe sleep. 👉🏻A- alone 👉🏻B- back 👉🏻C- crib Tali Korman shared a post on Instagram: "So I wanted to make a reel but I’ve got a stinky cold so I thought I’d put my kids in the limelight instead… I think they did a pretty good job🤪! ABC of safe sleep. 👉🏻A- alone 👉🏻B- back 👉🏻C- crib Like this reel. Save and Share with ...